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I attempted to fish on Opening Day of PA trout (Northern Tier of PA opener on 4/16). Every single ditch trickle, creek, or run was raging from 3" of rain!!! I kept driving southwards (almost 186 miles one way) looking for anything fishable. After 3 hours of searching, swearing, and kicking myself for even trying to fish....
I ended up at Spring Creek at Benner Springs between Bellfonte, PA and State College, PA). I've never seen Spring Creek at 223cfs before.... or have ever attempted to fish it over 190cfs. Normally Spring Creek is at 40cfs... yeah, 40!!! At 223cfs, It was rolling, muddy, and high (very high for Spring that usually has stable flows year round)
Nature decided to transplant a new strike indicator on my line.
I spied this Golden rainbow trout (sometimes referred as a "Palomino" but it is not a true Palomino trout. It is a cross-breed between the original 1954 isolated strain of a West Virginia Palomino Trout and a McCloud River - California Rainbow Trout) in the Benner Springs hatchery outflow. It must have escaped. It was living rather nicely here.... raising to tiny flies. (very defiantly I must say... now... how do I hop this fence?) It looks like a small goldfish, right? Nope that is at least a 14 incher sitting in that run.
Fishing with "The Godfather" the defacto ruler of the Dirtbag Flyfishing Posse.
The Godfather got 3 hits in a bunny leech fly. We saw an osprey with a trout.... I sadly, just got cold and wet. I deferred to my Godfather after 2 hours of playing in the mud. We opted to have a light lunch at McDonald's and ended up BS'ing for 75 minutes. So... 190 mile drive one way for a fish o' fliet and a cup of coffee. LOL!
I ended up at Spring Creek at Benner Springs between Bellfonte, PA and State College, PA). I've never seen Spring Creek at 223cfs before.... or have ever attempted to fish it over 190cfs. Normally Spring Creek is at 40cfs... yeah, 40!!! At 223cfs, It was rolling, muddy, and high (very high for Spring that usually has stable flows year round)
Nature decided to transplant a new strike indicator on my line.
I spied this Golden rainbow trout (sometimes referred as a "Palomino" but it is not a true Palomino trout. It is a cross-breed between the original 1954 isolated strain of a West Virginia Palomino Trout and a McCloud River - California Rainbow Trout) in the Benner Springs hatchery outflow. It must have escaped. It was living rather nicely here.... raising to tiny flies. (very defiantly I must say... now... how do I hop this fence?) It looks like a small goldfish, right? Nope that is at least a 14 incher sitting in that run.
Fishing with "The Godfather" the defacto ruler of the Dirtbag Flyfishing Posse.
The Godfather got 3 hits in a bunny leech fly. We saw an osprey with a trout.... I sadly, just got cold and wet. I deferred to my Godfather after 2 hours of playing in the mud. We opted to have a light lunch at McDonald's and ended up BS'ing for 75 minutes. So... 190 mile drive one way for a fish o' fliet and a cup of coffee. LOL!
